Ticket



. M YRIC THEATRE Adml'l 0n: Arron/ms CrA. UCKf TICKET.

APPLICATION man DEC'.27, 1920.

To all to 710m it may concern.

ire earns oAr'rILLns ALOYN LICK,- or roar. sivrrrmhnxansas, nssrenon.'ro WELDON, WILLIAMS -A1\TD "LICK, or roar smrrrr, naxnnsas, Aoonronnrronor ARKANASAS.

aiaeee l Be itknown that-l, C rTiLLns LICK, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Fort Smith, in the county of Sebastian andState of Arkansas, have invented a new and Improved Ticket,-of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in tickets, and more particularlyto strip tickets which are arranged in book form and maintained flat asdistinguished from tickets such as are wound in a roll, an object of theinvention being to provide an improved manner of numbering the ticketsso that the accurate number of tickets sold is concealed and can bedetermined only by the utilizing of one of the tickets in connectionwith the number on the binding stub of the strip of.

tickets.

A further object is to provide a ticket which can be conveniently tornoil with one hand leaving the other hand of the operator free for makingchange, and which will prevent fraud in the sale of tickets as thetickets must be torn off in consecutive order. W 1th these and other obects in View the invention consists in certain novel features ofconstruction, and combinations and ar rangements of parts, as will bemore fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a broken plan view illustratinga ticket strip.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view illustrating the next adjacent stub tothat shown in Figure 1.

lVhile I have illustrated but a single ticket strip, it is, of course,to be understood that in use I provide any desired number of ticketstrips all constructed alike and each having a stub 1 with a series oftickets 2 thereon, all formed from a single strip of paper or othersuitable material having perforated lines 3 between the tickets andbetween the end ticket and the stub and having notched edges 4 so thatthe tickets can be conveniently torn apart.

Thestrips are made so that the lines of perforation extend parallel withthe grain and not across it, as is common with strip tickets such as aresold in'the form of a roll, so that the tickets can be easily torn withone hand while the other hand of the operator is free to make change.

Specification of Letters Patent. Paieentgd June (3, 1922. a licationfiled December 27, aa. serial in. 433,393.

I The tickets may, of course,

TICKET.

contain anydesired printed matter, as, for example, the name of thetheatre, the number of persons admitted by the ticket, usually oneperson,

the desires of the trade. I

Each stub 1 will contain a number 5 and each of the tickets 2 of eachstrip will contain numerals indicated by the reference character 6,these last-named numerals being in consecutive order, as, for example,the tickets, beginning with the one farthest removed from the bindingstub] should bear the numerals 0 to 9. tickets to the strip, thenumerals appearing the same on every strip. The number on the bindingstub, of course, is consecutive.

As the stubs l are secured in some apand other printed matterinaccordance with proved manner in a book, the numbers indicated by thereference character 5 are concealed so that a casual observer or theticket seller himself cannot tell how many tickets have been sold eventhough he knows the manner of determining this answer.

To determine the number of tickets sold, it is necessary to add thenumeral on the free end of the strip to the end of the series ofnumerals constituting the number indicated by the reference numeral 5.In the drawing the stub member is 2603, and assuming that this stripconstitutes one strip of a book of strips, to find out the number oftickets sold, the numeral 0 at the end of the strip must be added afterthe 3 of the stub number, so that it will be shown that 26030 ticketshave been sold.

It is, of course, to be understood that the stub numbers indicated bythereference numeral 5, will be on the several strips ar ranged in properconsecutive, so that the method of disclosing the number of tickets soldin a day, or for any given period, can be readily determined bysubtracting from the lastnumber indicated the number indicated at theclose of the prior days business.

In furnishing to the trade an order, say for one hundred thousandtickets,the stubs in regular consecutive order will be numbered from 0(cipher) to 9,999. In

There are but ten parts described Without departing from the invention,and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, butconsider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations asfairly fall Within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a ticket strip, comprising a stub,and a series of tickets attached thereto, said stub containing a number,and said tickets containing numerals, the ticket numerals being arrangedin consecutive order, and said stub, number and said ticket numeralshaving a relation to each other whereby, to determine the number oftickets sold, by adding the numeral of the ticket at the free end of thestripat the end'of the series of numerals forming the stub number.

"2. As a new article'of manufacture, a a

ticket strip, comprising a stub, and a series of tickets attachedthereto, said strip having lines of perforations and notched edgesforming weakened portions between the tickets of the strip, said linesof perforations being With the grain of the strip, Where-

